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Hi, I'm new to this, and not quite sure how it all works!
I have joined this forum to try and get advice about my brothers girlfriend who has alot of problems.
2 years ago she had her 4th child and had suicidal thoughts and mood swings. She was diagnosed with postnatal depression. She had careworkers come round every evening who gave her a pill to help her sleep and relax, but they didn't really help her on an emotional level. One morning in the early hours, while my brother and their 4 children were sleeping, she left the house and tried to committ suicide in a park. This was no cry for help, she took alot of tablets, cut her wrists and hid in a bush. She was only found by chance by a stranger and the doctors said she wouldn't have made it if not for them. She was sectioned as soon as she was able to leave hospital and spent 2 months in the psychiatric hospital. During this time she tried to committ suicide again 3 times. When she was finally released she was completely different. We all tried to help in every way we could, but it's as though her normal self had died. She admitted she felt she had lost the bond with her kids and she was just odd.
Were now 2 years down the line and she is a complete cow! I don't mean that in a nasty way, it's just the only word I can use for her right now! She has a big problem with my brother and keeps trying to knock him down all the time and belittle him. She has made him sleep in their spare room and put a lock on her bedroom door. She has stopped him from eating anything she buys, she locks the toilet rolls in her room and will only get them out if her or the kids need it! She has terrible rages and shouts at everyone in the house. She is only like this in front of certain people, almost as if she knows not to do it in front of people that could get her into trouble. My brother has been so supportive to her. He honestly is one of the most kindest men I know and I'm proud of him for sticking by her through all this. She has now started to involve the kids which is really affecting them. She'll call my brother horrible names and is almost trying to turn them against him. It really upsets them. One of their boys is 11 and a bedwetter. She has great pleasure in calling him 'pissy pants'. There is alot more to this but I want to know if anyone knows what she has, or if she is just being a cow! She has a care worker that comes round monthly, and my brother has voiced his concerns to her, but his girlfriend is very good at putting on a front and tells her nothing is wrong, therefore they won't listen to my brother. I feel my family have been let down by the system. My brother is trying to help her before she does something to herself again, or god forbid the poor kids. No-one will help him.
Please help me to help him!
I have joined this forum to try and get advice about my brothers girlfriend who has alot of problems.
2 years ago she had her 4th child and had suicidal thoughts and mood swings. She was diagnosed with postnatal depression. She had careworkers come round every evening who gave her a pill to help her sleep and relax, but they didn't really help her on an emotional level. One morning in the early hours, while my brother and their 4 children were sleeping, she left the house and tried to committ suicide in a park. This was no cry for help, she took alot of tablets, cut her wrists and hid in a bush. She was only found by chance by a stranger and the doctors said she wouldn't have made it if not for them. She was sectioned as soon as she was able to leave hospital and spent 2 months in the psychiatric hospital. During this time she tried to committ suicide again 3 times. When she was finally released she was completely different. We all tried to help in every way we could, but it's as though her normal self had died. She admitted she felt she had lost the bond with her kids and she was just odd.
Were now 2 years down the line and she is a complete cow! I don't mean that in a nasty way, it's just the only word I can use for her right now! She has a big problem with my brother and keeps trying to knock him down all the time and belittle him. She has made him sleep in their spare room and put a lock on her bedroom door. She has stopped him from eating anything she buys, she locks the toilet rolls in her room and will only get them out if her or the kids need it! She has terrible rages and shouts at everyone in the house. She is only like this in front of certain people, almost as if she knows not to do it in front of people that could get her into trouble. My brother has been so supportive to her. He honestly is one of the most kindest men I know and I'm proud of him for sticking by her through all this. She has now started to involve the kids which is really affecting them. She'll call my brother horrible names and is almost trying to turn them against him. It really upsets them. One of their boys is 11 and a bedwetter. She has great pleasure in calling him 'pissy pants'. There is alot more to this but I want to know if anyone knows what she has, or if she is just being a cow! She has a care worker that comes round monthly, and my brother has voiced his concerns to her, but his girlfriend is very good at putting on a front and tells her nothing is wrong, therefore they won't listen to my brother. I feel my family have been let down by the system. My brother is trying to help her before she does something to herself again, or god forbid the poor kids. No-one will help him.
Please help me to help him!